Hello Beekeeping Club Members! We’re having our annual Holiday Dinner for club members this Saturday, November 11th. You should have received an invitation via email! If you haven’t, reach out to the club for the location and costs. We hope to see you there. Share…
The Pickens County Extension Service and local beekeepers (Randy Tudor and BJ Weeks) are hosting a 5 week course on beekeeping for beginning beekeepers. The course will cover starting beekeeping, building equipment, understanding bee pests, medications, strategies for keeping bees, producing and extracting honey. A…
The Cherokee Bee Club’s Next Meeting Will Be: Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 Time: 7pm to 9pm Location: First Baptist Church of Holly Springs 2632 Holly Springs Parkway, Holly Springs, GA 30142 Presenter: Topic: We will be discussing mites – feed – population – storage…
More bad news about neonics. This time, the neonics are finding their way into honey based on the results of a new study. To get a better sense of just how widespread neonic contamination is, Mitchell and his colleagues analyzed 198 worldwide honey samples collected…
The Pentagon has requested that the planes treat more than 6 million acres throughout the Houston area. The Air Force noted that the current effort is “expected to significantly surpass previous [spraying] missions in scope,” specifically the spraying campaigns that followed Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.…
The Cherokee Bee Club’s Next Meeting Will Be: Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017 Time: 7pm to 9pm Location: First Baptist Church of Holly Springs 2632 Holly Springs Parkway, Holly Springs, GA 30142 Presenter: Brandon and Katherine Brooks Topic: Brandon & Katherine Brooks will be discussing…
“The Varroa mite is the worst threat to honeybee health worldwide,” said Zachary Huang, MSU entomologist. “They have developed resistance to many pesticides, so it’s urgent that we explore and target these genes to develop better control methods.” Earlier research has shown that a combination…
Bees seem to understand the idea of zero – the first invertebrate shown to do so. When the insects were encouraged to fly towards a platform carrying fewer shapes than another one, they apparently recognised “no shapes” as a smaller value than “some shapes”. In…
In an article recently published in the Entomological Society of America’s Environmental Entomology, researchers argue that the Varroa mite has “co-opted” several honeybee behaviors to its own benefit, allowing it to disperse widely even though the mite itself is not a highly mobile insect. The…
The men accused of heading up an operation to steal and re-sell beehives, Pavel Tveretinov and Vitaliy Yeroshenko, 48, have been charged with nine felony counts of receiving stolen property and one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property, the LA Times reports. The beehives were…
